APRIL BOOK
April's book will be the Booker Prize winning The Remains of the Day (https://www.amazon.com/Remains-Day-Kazuo-Ishiguro/dp/0679731725/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2ZT6S9UMXA6TD&keywords=remains+of+the+day+book&qid=1584338471&sprefix=remains%2Caps%2C240&sr=8-1) by Kazuo Ishiguro (also a Nobel laureate). The film adaptation (starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson) is well worth seeing. Join us on the evening of Tuesday, April 7 for a relaxing evening of good food, book talk and a beverage or two, starting at 7pm at the Sylvia Hotel Lounge overlooking English Bay. Note: with the COVID-19 situation so fluid, check back here in case we need to move, postpone or cancel April's planned meeting.
This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, and of his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the "great gentleman," Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's "greatness," and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life.
